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The Acton Fre Press Wed Jan Pantomime delights busload Acton Lions centennial pool opens officially Sunday A six fool kangaroo a woolly turtle charming man tailed Buttons these characters delighted a group of who went to Hamilton Place Friday night for the English pantomime production of Cinderella Jack and Joyte Carpenter organized the outing helped by Jacks show business con shows director grapher and star was inter viewed on Carpenters radio program along with Dawson Chance the well known key in the performance Chances visit to the Car penter home with Ins and turtle puppets at of Joyces dancing behoof pupils A trip to the pantomime inevitable and a bus was to transport of the Car friends and students Trad It Inn Two thousand spectators packed the beautifully tic signed theatre to cheer Hut Ions laugh at the no ugly sisters and sigh at the fairy ale romance Pantomime is an ancient English theatre art form many traditions of which lin in todays somewhat music hall performance The main purpose of panto mime is to entertain and in children in theatre participation cording to the cast of Cinderella Canadian child ren provided more livelj au diences than English ones possibly because of the lack of this of entertainment here It was certainly evident the Acton spectators enjoyed themselves immensely Back singe With the help of Hamilton Places public relations of iccr Barbara an laivcn the Carpenters were invited to take their parly back the performance to meet many of the east Scruffy the turtle kissed all the girls while his Dawson Chance was occup ied signing autographs quite a feat if you think about it A similar trip to next years pantomime Aladdin is now being planned The Acton Lions centennial pool will be declared of open Sunday afternoon at even though hundreds have been enjoying swimming for some weeks now The official opening doesnt involve the water at all anyway For one thing regulations prevent spectators from coming any closer to the water than six feet which made an aquatic display impossible ho the whole program is in the high school gym with dry tours of the pool before and after the official ceremonies 1 ions club members will present a cheque for to the town of llallon Hills the result of their canvass in town The tow not Acton made a grant of and federal and provincial grants are forthcoming to the town Total cost is estimated at over now as costs during the course of the project The Lions club first dreamed of a pool project in July niter their plans to refurbish the station went wrong cost proved too high and the station was sold by the I and demolished for scrap Only project Still determined to have a centennial project for the town they proceeded with the pool idea finding ready cooperation from the town and school board Lions remember they were told by many theyd never nuke it Now they want everyone to come and see that they did make It and now Ihey have it The pool is really the only town centennial project to which people contributed It is already well used with over 200 swimming last Saturday Costly They realized from the beginning no local organization could manage a pool alone After construction constant maintenance and of operation school board now maintains and supervises the pool with Hills recreation department in charge In off school hours On the Lions pool committee arc Art Gordon as campaign Ray Don Don Gordon and Vic The club has 14 members and It would have been impossible to do It alone say the committee members We had a wonderful relationship with the town they added Members of parliament participating clergymen former Aclon councillors present Hills councillors recreation department and board of education officials will store the stage with the proud Lions club afternoon High school teacher Jim Goring will act as master of Therell be refreshments afterward has a special welcome to come We really want to show the pool off to the people and let them see what they have grin the happy Lions AND TWO SMILING faces belong to Jill Morris and Shannon Lindsay on their way to see Cinderella Meeting on Esquesing hall A puhtlc meeting to dtseuss the future of ilsoucsing iiimmunitv bull in town will be held this mouth In Gcoigetown Little I heat re presented a brief to council Its use as a I Ileal fur Hills Hint tune both Esquesing and Ashgrove Women Institutes and the hull board wen- opposed They said lluw did not until conti of the hall in be taken from the mm of the rural urea wanting to book the hall found out now must hook Halton Hills reel ion deportment thev bonked through the caretaker I he union of the west branch of the Credit River and the main portion of the made water for milling it of a kind In the s CINDERELLA STARS wow a group of young backstage at Hamilton Place Lionel Blatr director choreographer and star poses with ventriloquist Dawson Chance and puppet Scruffy The English pantomime was attended by a busload of Acton enthusiasts VENTRILOQUIST signs autographs for Acton fans at tlie performance of Cinderella in Hamilton Place BEST WISHES TO THE ACTON LIONS CLUB AND THE TOWN OF HALTON HILLS ON THE OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE Lions Centennial Pool We are happy to have been a part of this worthwhile project DECORATING and PAINTING BY POLLOCK PAINTING DECORATING LTD ill KING STREET CAMBRIDGE ONTARIO ACTON LIONS CLUB AM Till TOWN OF HALTON HILLS We are proud to have been chosen as the electrical subcontractor for the Acton Lions Centennial Pool KELLER ELECTRIC LIMITED Tanglewood Avenue Kitchener Ontario Congratulations THE ACTON LIONS CLUB AND THE TOWN OF HALTON HILLS on the OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE Acton Lions Centennial Pool I DESIGN PROPOSAL CONSTRUCTION BY CONDIGN LTD 34 LAUREL ST WATERLOO ONTARIOS FOREMOST RECREATIONAL BUILDING CONTRACTORS DOUG HICKS